G land dos and donts

stunet wrote:

I'll be walking past Bobby's in halfa if you're keen Moonah.

I’m there Thursday morning Stu.
You’ll still be around yeah?

Roystein wrote:

AlfredWallace wrote:

Island Bay wrote:

Water’s pretty toasty on Bali. Boardies only.

IslandBay. Hi mate. Loving your updates.
Supa and I got to Lances Right at 12.00 today, lunch and straight into the juice, clean, hardly a puff of wind, 4-5ft odd bigger one, nice little introduction, water and air temperature is very warm compared to Lembongan. All the best AW&SF.

How’s the crowd AW? Still feel like Lances is a box I need to tick…only surfed it as a pit stop crumbly 4ft hoping the wind would switch, never did.

Roystein. Hi mate, hope you’re digging it.

Arrived yesterday lunchtime, 4-5ft pretty crowded but we got waves, this morning first up small group, smaller surf 3-4ft. Post breakfast another session only ten in the water got waves, bit slow but decent when they arrived, I think small again tomorrow before the chart starts to go right up and then serious right up.
Barely a puff of wind which is a bonus. Getting good practice in for when it gets serious.
Yes, it is a wave you must surf before you die, at 4-6ft it’s much fun. AW

Wow this thread just gets better and better !
Straight gassed out stu
Woke up reved up and at it again
Putting as much energy in as Josh ku in the gland channel atta boy !

Underdownunder wrote:

Lanky Dean wrote:

No word from stu today.
Must be in the barrel!

He was busy getting upset that someone paddled up his inside and got the next one , funnily enough he had just paddled up my inside. Lol

Gotta admit, it was poor form.

Didn't know you were out there? Unless this is Mitchell taking over the account. Everyone looks like an identical Ansell condom in those full sheath rash vests.

Let it be known that I dont care who paddles inside of me today.

This heat, eh?

you there tomorrow, @stu?
@Moonah crash landing..
even up the numbers a little,
should the all blacks start poking the wallabies..

Moonah wrote:

stunet wrote:

I'll be walking past Bobby's in halfa if you're keen Moonah.

I’m there Thursday morning Stu.
You’ll still be around yeah?

Yeah, last day. Swell's run out of steam. Next one looks alright. Bit smaller than the last but better tides.

stunet wrote:

Underdownunder wrote:

Lanky Dean wrote:

No word from stu today.
Must be in the barrel!

He was busy getting upset that someone paddled up his inside and got the next one , funnily enough he had just paddled up my inside. Lol

Gotta admit, it was poor form.

Didn't know you were out there? Unless this is Mitchell taking over the account. Everyone looks like an identical Ansell condom in those full sheath rash vests.

Let it be known that I dont care who paddles inside of me today.

This heat, eh?

Full sheath rashies. The long sleeve hoodie (Florence X of course) or the the full body suit?(body condoms)

stunet wrote:

Moonah wrote:

stunet wrote:

I'll be walking past Bobby's in halfa if you're keen Moonah.

I’m there Thursday morning Stu.
You’ll still be around yeah?

Yeah, last day. Swell's run out of steam. Next one looks alright. Bit smaller than the last but better tides.

You might be surfed out tomorrow, see ya for a binnie

Speaking of Florence X , I checked out their website for impact spring suits . They only do custom made ones and are $1400 but to order one you must first become a member for a $20 fee . AW thought he was onto some well priced Florence marine boardshorts at the Hts surf shop , price tag said 300,000 rp , bargain , took them to the counter and on scanning they were 1,300,000 rp , a little 1 was on a different line to the 300 . Needless to say , no deal .

Enjoy the last day, Stu. How have your boards been going?

Speaking of hooded rashies, I’ve only worn mine once, otherwise boardies, bareback and no booties, and fuck does that feel good. Zero sunburn.

Island Bay wrote:

Enjoy the last day, Stu. How have your boards been going?

Speaking of hooded rashies, I’ve only worn mine once, otherwise boardies, bareback and no booties, and fuck does that feel good. Zero sunburn.

The Outer Island gun went unreal on the bigger days. I've ridden it here before so I knew it would. Brought a 6'4" Stretch as a back up when another board fell through, but it's an experimental board. Basically a full size Comp Gun shrunk into a 6'4" frame. Very thick so it paddles unreal but the rails don't engage easily. I felt 'on' the water not 'in' it. It'd sideslip during big speed pumps.

Last two surfs on a 6'4 DP with a slight assym tail. Very twitchy, great to get the first pump in during smal swell and low tide. Lotta fun.

Sounds like you gave the Keogh a proper going over.

A Mitchell Rae in Indo - can’t go wrong.

Yeah, had a good time on the Keogh. All I want to do now is surf bigger waves on a big board. It’s a problem.

Island Bay wrote:

A Mitchell Rae in Indo - can’t go wrong.

Yeah, had a good time on the Keogh. All I want to do now is surf bigger waves on a big board. It’s a problem.

A few expat friends have been whinging all year that we haven’t really had a decent swell yet . I’m very content with this year so far but they are hooked on charging big waves , the bigger the better, it’s their drug and they haven’t been getting their fix . Driving their wives crazy with their grumpiness to the point the wives are screaming at them “ for god sake’s just go surfing ! “

The answer to the first trivia question ?
Who surf with their booties clipped to their boardies scrapped their fins on the reef at lowtide?

Jeff Booth or
Chris Gallagher or
Shane Beschen ?

One of the Hobgoods?

Island Bay wrote:

A Mitchell Rae in Indo - can’t go wrong.

Yeah, had a good time on the Keogh. All I want to do now is surf bigger waves on a big board. It’s a problem.

It really is a problem - how do you make the rest of your life work when that's all you're thinking about? I've never figured it out.

It’s not like I’ve gone mental, just that my surfing tastes skew heavily towards large waves/boards. It’ll change.

But it’s an itch that’s hard to scratch. Where to travel to without great expense and fickle logistics?

I guess the obvious answer is to be patient.

Island Bay wrote:

It’s not like I’ve gone mental, just that my surfing tastes skew heavily towards large waves/boards. It’ll change.

But it’s an itch that’s hard to scratch. Where to travel to without great expense and fickle logistics?

I guess the obvious answer is to be patient.

South Island NZ in winter gets some solid lines , hard to find the balls to do it when they are hibernating up your innards . I met a kiwi in sumba last year that lives down south, takes a bit of getting used to when he goes home in September after 3 months in indo .

Island Bay wrote:

It’s not like I’ve gone mental, just that my surfing tastes skew heavily towards large waves/boards. It’ll change.

But it’s an itch that’s hard to scratch. Where to travel to without great expense and fickle logistics?

I guess the obvious answer is to be patient.

SW WA??

Last chance on the question ?
You all know of him .
Thought people would froth out more on the trivia ?

I said 'Steve', a while back @Lanky..?

basesix wrote:

I said 'Steve', a while back @Lanky..?

Not him ,

Tommy Carroll?

Greg someone

Slater in 96?
Enduro boardies prototype with water bottle pocket.???

I frothed, like a cappuccino Lanky. This one’s got me stumped though. Pro or underground legend?

Ross Clarke jones

August 96 Tracks cover?
https://shop.tracksmag.com.au/products/august-1996

Who’s that? Thought it was Kelly but LD said not the answer.
Shane Powell?

Same ex-Cronulla lad that accidently did a full 360 in the barrel and came out?

What about the Pauline Menzer comment on the tracks cover. What a shocker.

The cover is KS on a yellow Channel Islands.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/design-outline/2016/09/05/extraordinary-bo...

The story behind the shot.

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Don't know if it's the answer Lanky is looking for though.

Slater dropped in on Camel on that wave if my memory is right.

Camel claims that in the comments in that swellnet link.

Either way it's an interesting bit of trivia to revisit even if I have got it wrong.
And FFS Lanky, put us out of our collective misery.

Moonah wrote:

Slater dropped in on Camel on that wave if my memory is right.

from what i remember slater (and some yank pros) said that was probably the best barrel he has had at g-land and camel thought to himself "well ive had much better barrels than that here"...thats if i recall correctly...
and back then camel as you probably know would some days check here and there all day looking from shore, big or small usually sizey days but was happy to surf small speedies too..and chickens as chickens is such a fun rare wave...anyway camel sometimes would paddle out and only get one wave at whatever section he thought was going to work...and that one wave he got was often the best wave that came in all day...other times hed pull into the ledge or some slabbier reef and be non stop pulling into 8 foot kegs...saw that in 1997, ledge eventually closed out though but super sick puts before they closed out..lowtide from memory.

clay was like that in the north west at a fickle wave..one day he was waiting for a long time to paddle out, got one 6 second or so tube then paddled out somewhere else and no other wave came into that fickle shallow reef again all day..clay was tapped into some sort off sixth sense imo, camel might be too..

zenagain wrote:

Tommy Carroll?

Boom !zen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stunet, I expect some photos, updates ect, who ripped the bag who was drab,
but really I want an in dept story of the lost board the swim and the board rescue

Yee hah!

Thanks Lanky. Keep 'em coming.

While we are in Indo- What was the Late Mikala Jones Birth Name ?

Jeffrey Mikala Jones

andy-mac wrote:

Island Bay wrote:

It’s not like I’ve gone mental, just that my surfing tastes skew heavily towards large waves/boards. It’ll change.

But it’s an itch that’s hard to scratch. Where to travel to without great expense and fickle logistics?

I guess the obvious answer is to be patient.

SW WA??

Great idea

zenagain wrote:

Yee hah!

Thanks Lanky. Keep 'em coming.

thats 2 trivia wins for you ZEN!

stu's next stop...... "the JSC mystery tour !"

Lanky Dean wrote:

stu's next stop...... "the JSC mystery tour !"

Yes I believe steve & craig have signed up , ben left at home to hold the fort .

You picked the best days to get crook - in between swells.

Had a beer up at Bobby's yesterday evening and while walking back past Jawa Jiwa I heard Slice Of Heaven by Dave Dobbin being played loud, sung even louder.

Couldn't believe it.

Called in to see your mates arm in arm finishing off the "da da da" part, and Deano kicking it shirtless on a beanbag looking like the cat that got the cheese. Fucking hell, what a classic scene as the sun dipped over the bay and your mates got the bonfire stacked. Few toasts to the ANZACs, glasses raised, then Let There Be Rock by AC/DC came on and your mates were off and away again.

I then had a few beers with old Moonah down at Joyos, who was quietly chuffed at the coming forecast. Glad he packed a 7'6". I left this morning on the fast boat. Kuta now, home tomorrow.

Glad to hear you're feeling better. Hope you can swing into a few during the next swell.

For the last week or so I've been walking round saying "Jawa jiwa " out loud
And keep saying Gland and my wife keeps saying what's gland....

What's the Jawa Jiwa camp like?